Contains instructions of [Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood] to Capt. Harry Beverley, Commander of the Sloop Virgin of Virginia, to meet with a Commander from Spain appointed for examining into the affair of the wrecks on the coast of Florida. In addition, he instructs Beverley to acquaint him with Josiah Forbes, master of a sloop belonging to Philadelphia, who is suspected of taking away plate & other goods from the Spaniards and in confinement in Virginia until he can answer his charge.